1) India first produced a coin with an Indian on it in 1964. Who was the Indian?

Ans. Jawaharlal Nehru

2) Which Swedish tech Giant is the world’s largest manufacturer of ball bearings?

Ans. SKF

3) What do “Disloyalty cards” signify?

Ans. Go Swadeshi

4) What is crowdfunding?

Ans. Raising funds online

5) When mini cooper launched in the US, their ads said “ Let’s sip, not guzzle”. What was the message?

Ans. Fuel efficiency

6) Which company came up with the concept of 8 hr work days?

Ans. Tata Steel

Round 2:

1. Advert for?

– OLX

2. In the following Dilbert cartoon strip “The brown ring of quality” refers to the logo of which company?

– Lucent Technologies

3. Dr. Spencer – worked on wave technology and discovered what?

-Microwave Oven

4. This lines of mechanical pencils were first produced by which company?

– Sharp

5. Pham Nhat Vuong- Founder of VIN Group. The first Billionaire of which country?

– Vietnam

6. Old identity of which organization?

– Corporation Bank

Round 3:

1) This famous lady in Indian business is a TATA Global Beverages board of directors member. Who?

Ans. Mallika Sreenivasan

2) “Do right” campaign has been launched by?

Ans. TATA Capital

3) This railway station has been named as a tribute to the Tatas. What is the name of the station?

Ans. TATA Nagar

4) It was a small concept called Littlewoods. It came to India and was acquired by the Tatas. What?

Ans. Westside

Round 4:

1.

– Arvind Mills

2.

– PVP Investments

3.

– Novartis

Round 5:

1) Amazon.com entered India with the launch of which website?

Ans. Junglee.com

2) Company started by Natalia Luckynova and Keith Sheperd, Temple run is its famous product

Ans. Imangi Studios

3) Started in 2003 by Helsinki University students Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen, and Kim Dikert as “Relude”

Ans. Rovio

RESULTS:

WINNER:

RS Power Solutions – Apoorv K and Ms.Ashwini Karandikar

RUNNER UP:

Shiksha Content – Ms.Shubhangi Vaidya and Ashish Vaidya

-Review by Pradyoth.

Pradyoth is a PGP student at IIM Indore Mumbai campus. He won the inaugural edition of TATA Crucible campus quiz at Navi Mumbai. He is also the founder and head of Quriosity, the quiz club of IIM Indore Mumbai campus.

10) “The map and the territory”, is a book by which Former federal chief?

Ans. Alan Greenspan

11) James bond is seen enjoying a drink from which dutch company in Skyfall?

Ans. Heineken

12) Which company has recently forayed into the deodorant spray market which the launch of “Couples” deo?

Ans. ITC

13) American Businessman Harold Alfond, who founded the Dexter shoe company, is credited with creating which retail format?

Ans. Factory outlets

14) What is the full form of CIPLA?

Ans. Chemical, Industrial & Pharmaceutical Laboratories

15) Which Indian institution does he head?

Ans. SBI

16) The last one to shut down will be park street in Kolkata. Id this RP Goenka owned brand.

Ans. Musicworld

17) This term was coined in 2009 by Navi Radjou. The examples of these include the pepsi atom and the McAloo Tikkiburger. Which term?

Ans. Indovation

18) Who hosts the TV show “Dimensions” on CNN IBN?

Ans. Vijay Amritraj

19) Which bank in Europe first introduced bank notes?

Ans. Bank of Sweden

20) Jan Koum and Brian Acton are associated with which famous mobile chat service?

Ans. Whatsapp

-Review by Pradyoth.

Pradyoth is a PGP student at IIM Indore Mumbai campus. He won the inaugural edition of TATA Crucible campus quiz at Navi Mumbai. He is also the founder and head of Quriosity, the quiz club of IIM Indore Mumbai campus.

1. Built by Herzoc Demeuron and the Arup Group, it is the home of Bayern Munich, a stadium with a capacity for 72,000 people. Who bought the naming rights of the stadium for a 30 year period?

A: Allianz

2. The CEO of the company wanted a short, snappy name for the company, which conveys ‘vitality’, and can be pronounced in any language the same way, reflecting the desire of the company to gain an international position. The first name that was decided was ‘Elan’, but was later changed to its current name. What?

A: Axa

3. This organisation was involved in mapping the Oryx DNA project, similar to the ‘Save The Tiger’ project. Which organisation?

A: The Qatar Foundation

4. This Indian company launched a brand caked ‘Serpina’, acknowledged as the world’s first anti-hypertensive drug in 1934. Which company?

A: Himalaya

5. ‘I.Am.Auto.’ is a car customization company, where the CEO himself partakes in the production process. Who is the man behind this?

A: Will.I.Am.

6. This company, after great deliberation and thought, came out with the idea of ‘Maternity Leave’.

A: TISCO

Round 2:

1. ID this Indian personality.

– Sanjay Narang from Mars Group

2. Name the author of the book.

– Seth Godin

3. Crossword on NYT containing the entire history of the company. Which one?

1. This was originally introduced in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain Celebrations. Because of its success and popularity, it has become a global annual event. What is this event?

A: The Miss World beauty pageant

2. Which Indian organization owns the Screen Awards?

A: The Indian Express group

3. This was the first European football club to come out with an IPO and listed in the London Stock Exchange. Which club?

A: Tottenham Hotspurs

4. This subsidiary of Fosters is the sponsor on the jerseys of the Australian cricket team when they play overseas. What are we talking about?

A: Victoria Bitter

5. Ages ago, while testing and tasting this product, a hundred caskets were laid out and all had to be sampled. Out of this one was selected. What are we talking about?

A: Vat 69

6. Pepsi has a vitamin-enriched variation that was first seen in Back to the Future Part II. It is a fictional drink, set in 2015, and PepsiCo is considering launching this variation in 2015 to commemorate the film. What is the name of this variation?

A: Pepsi Perfect

Round 2:

1. Why did United Air name one of their planes after Thomas Stuker?

– First person to have 1 million frequent flier miles.

2. Grit, Guts and Gumption, authored by Rajesh Chakrabarti, is a book based on which famous Indian enterprise?

– State Bank of India

3. ‘What if we were 75 years old’ was the tagline used in the vintage representation of which modern enterprise?

– youtube.com

4. Identify the brand from the image.

– Samsonite

5. Rahul Roushan, an alumni of IIM-A, started a website which was acquired by the online news website FirstPost. Which website?

– FakingNews.com

6. Identify the company.

– Greengold Animation (creators of Chhota Bheem)

Round 3:

1. The Tatas created an interesting concept to motivate children and inspire them about entrepreneurship. What?

A: Tata Jagrati Express

2. In March 2009, this construction giant received the contract to supply steel for the manufacture of aircraft carriers by the Royal Navy. In the legal battle, what was the name of the applicant?

A: Corus

3. It contains TSRF technology and destroys bacteria.What?

A: Tata Swach

4. Nani Palkhivala was the second chairman of which Tata company?

A: Tata Consultancy Services

Round 4:

1. When the value of investments increase, but the owner does not intend to sell the stocks anytime in the future, then that increase in profits is reflected as what sort of profits?

A: Paper Profit

2. Cheesesteak factories have been opening across the globe due to a trend set by a popular television show and its characters. What is this credited to?

A: The Big Bang Theory

3. Singer and actor, Dhanush, has signed on with what brand to retain the ‘freshness’ of the brand. Which brand?

A: Centre Fresh

4. Which product brand name derives its name from the bacteria Strepsococcus?

A: Strepsils

Round 5:

1. Founded as an American messenger company in 1907, by Casey and Ryan.

A: UPS

2. Belgium conferred the Commander of the Order of Leopold II to which Indian businessman, born in 1949?

A: Naresh Goyal (Chairman of Jet Airways)

3. The management thinker Joseph Juran first suggested this, and named it after an Italian economist. What?

(Clue – She is the child of a renowned cricketer and a yesteryear actress)

– Masaba Gupta

2. It was the first place in India to screen a movie and is India’s oldest iron cast building. Sadiq Ali currently owns it. Which building?

(Clue – It is now a hotel called the ______)

– The Watson Hotel

3. This Italian luxury fashion house is footing the bill of € 2.18 Million for the restoration of the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Which entity?

(Options – Armani or Prada or Fendi)

– Fendi

4. Edward Snowden, now on the run, was employed with the Hawaii office of which firm?

– Booz Allen Hamilton

5. Fill in the blank/ what is the name of the book?

(Clue – The title of the book is also the name of a film starring Charlie Chaplin)

– Gold Rush

6. In 1541, reforms implemented by John Calvin banning the wearing of jewels, forced goldsmiths and other jewelers to turn to what new craft, thereby giving birth to a industry?

(Clue – It relates to a common human accessory)

– Watch making/watches

7. In 2013, Italian pen maker, Montegrappa released a model called number ‘4’ which recalls the legendary ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ of Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and a fourth musician. The pioneering Sun Records artists met for one occasion only, and the date on which it occurred was December 4th, 1956. Who is this famous 4th musician?

– Elvis Presley

8. www.jiyobefikarchamps.com is a junior football camp by which company?

– Bajaj Allianz

9. Lead heroine charged Rs. 11/- and the person on whom the story was based on, charged Rs. 1/-. Which 2013 film?

– Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

10. Three letter abbreviation of book missing. What is it?

– CEO

11. After which country is the largest selling imported vodka named in Russia, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary?

– Finland/Finlandia

12. British fashion designer is making ‘futuristic’ uniforms for 7500 crew of the Virgin Atlantic. Who?

– Vivienne Westwood

13. Which Ad agency created India’s first telefilm Janam in 1985-86?

(Options – Mudra or Contract or Trikaya Grey)

– Mudra

14. The tagline for Ravi Shankar’s first endorsement, which he did with his daughter Anoushka Shankar, read as “Let us bring harmony to animals”. Which entity?

(Clue – It is in relation to animals and is an organization.)

– PETA

15. This famous personality moved to Springfield for one episode. Who?

– Julian Assange

16. This two word term was coined in the 1940s by Hindustan Thomson Associated (JWT) to advertise for Horlicks. Which term?

(Clue – It is a two word punch line found in most nutrition lexicons. Horlicks provides you __________ _________)

– Balanced Nutrition

17. According to a survey by Hotels.com, Geneva has overtaken Paris as the most expensive city & New Delhi, has been voted as the cheapest city to buy which food item?

– Club Sandwich

18. According to JRD Tata, a _______ life is a part of an economic life. Which word?

– Ethical

19. What is common to Grameen Bank, Grameen Phone, Gonoshahthaya Grameen Textile and Grameen Cybernet? It is a specific commonality.

– Specific Grameen companies which are for profit.

20. Identify this product.

(Clue – It is the jeweled or decorated version of a simple item we consume almost daily.)

Q1. In which popular contest does the winner earn a Mustard Yellow belt?

A. Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Championship

Q2. In 1986, it was suggested that the term ‘broker’ be replaced by which term in the London Stock Exchange?

A. Jobber

Q3. Which company was founded by Florence Nightingale Graham and named partly after one of her previous business partner’s name and partly from an Alfred Lord Tennyson poem?

A. Elizabeth Arden perfumes

Q4. This company was originally called the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company and built telegraph lines since 1851, but in 1980’s they switched their primary business and is now a giant in that sector.

A. Western Union Money Transfer

Q5. Which American newspaper mogul was expelled from Harvard for his antics ranging from organizing massive beer parties to sending humiliating gifts to his professors?

A. William Randolph Hurst

Q6. Which beverage company sponsored the Argentina v/s Uruguay football tournament held since 1905?

A. Lipton

Round 2:

1. Who?

– The Nizam of Hyderabad

2. Identify the author.

– Eric Schmidt

3. Identify the person.

– Ken Olsen

4. Connect to a company.

– FedEx

Round 3:

Q1: Which F1 team is supported by Tata Communications as their connectivity partner?

A: Mercedes-Benz

Q2: Which Tata group company acquired the British salt company?

A: Tata Chemicals

Q3. TCS entered cricket sponsorship with which team?

A. Rajasthan Royals

Q4: What is the footwear brand of Tata group in JV with Japanese company and named after ‘ashi’ – Japanese for footsteps?

A: Tashi

Round 4:

Q1.

A. Ben & Jerry’s

Q2.

A. Barclays

Q3.

A G4S Securities Group

Q4.

A. Haagen Dazs Ice Cream

WINNER:

Infocepts Technologies – Shivam Sharma and Aniket Daoo

RUNNER UP:

Think Consultants – Parag Paranjpe and Ranjit Dani

Questions Reviewed by Mayank Mujumdar.

Mayank Mujumdar is currently pursuing a Postgraduate Diploma in Communications Management from Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad. His first memory of participating in a quiz competition is from a school quiz in second grade where he got the national bird of India wrong, and has been trying to improve ever since. Although he finds trivia from all topics under the sun interesting, he is particularly keen in topics pertaining to the world of music, entertainment, literature and arts. He occasionally dons the hat of a quizmaster and has conducted quizzes at some prestigious institutes across the country.

Q1: The name of which fictional character from the classics is commonly used to describe people who lend money at very high interest rates?

A: Shylock

Q2: What is the term used to describe a short term reversal in candle stick pattern in stock market, occurring in either an uptrend or a downtrend?

A: Hook reversal

Q3: Which management guru has written the book “The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child At a Time (2008)”?

A: Stephen Covey

Q4: Who was the person behind the advertisement campaign “Only Vimal”?

A: Frank Semoes

Q5: Print advertisement by which company?

A. FedEx

Q6: What are Potels in USA?

A: Motels run by member of the Patel community

Q7: Which iconic auto executive once said “Where are all the leaders gone?”

A: Lee Iacocca

Q8: Born in 1974, which US entrepreneur started off with a passenger ferry business, slowly controlling steamships in the Hudson river and also built the first railway line between New York and Chicago?

A: Vanderbilt

Q9: The tagline of which “royal” airline is “On the wings of Dragon wings”?

A: Druk Air (Royal Bhutanese)

Q10: Print advertisement campaign by a company which did not continue in print industry but became a telecom giant. Which one?

A: Samsung

Q11: Which company launched a smartphone in 1992 named SIMON that was a part-PDA, part-Fax, part-pager and part-mobile in it, making it a forerunner of modern day smartphones?

A: IBM
Q12: Sudhir Valia has JV called Telewings with which telecom company?

A: Telenor

Q13: Which US University is named after a British governor of Fort St. George, Madras from 1687-1692?

A: Yale

Q14: Which business group acquired Firtsource BPO from ICICI for 400 crores ?

A: RP Goenka Group

Q15: Who wrote Toyota Production system?

A: Ta’iichi Takasi

Q16: What does LIG stands for in TTK-LIG?

A: London International Group

Q17: Which British publishing house merged with Penguin books?

A: Random house
Q18: Which coffee chain was started by Amit Judge and had a Tata Group stake in it once?

A: Barista

Q19: Which West Bengal city was named after a promoter of IISCO ?

A: Burnpur

Q20: Anne Sweney is a key person in a media conglomerate and was voted as one of the most powerful women in media by Forbes. Which company does she head –

A: Disney ABC

Questions Reviewed by Mayank Mujumdar.

Mayank Mujumdar is currently pursuing a Postgraduate Diploma in Communications Management from Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad. His first memory of participating in a quiz competition is from a school quiz in second grade where he got the national bird of India wrong, and has been trying to improve ever since. Although he finds trivia from all topics under the sun interesting, he is particularly keen in topics pertaining to the world of music, entertainment, literature and arts. He occasionally dons the hat of a quizmaster and has conducted quizzes at some prestigious institutes across the country.

It was a memorable day of quizzing at Coimbatore, as the opening city of the 10th edition of Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz -2013, got off to a phenomenal start. With over 75 teams participating in the preliminary round, six teams qualified for the finals and the quiz witnessed a cut-off as high as 15. The current National Champions (Chennai Silks) made a slow start in the first round and picked up pace in the following rounds. Their preparation was evident from their performance in the TATA rounds. It was a close call for second place between the teams from Brookefields Estates and Kumbhat & Co., where in the end, Kumbhat & Co. took the second place with the last question.

RESULTS:

WINNER:

Chennai Silks – Yogesh Pai and Arul Saravanan

RUNNER UP:

Kumbhat & Co – Sheilendra Bhansali and Ms.Priya Bhansali

QUESTIONS;

PRELIMINARY ROUND:

1. Edwin Budding invented the first of this type in 1827 in Thrupp, Gloucestershire, UK. What was it?

– Lawn Mower

2. Dairy Milk, the brand of milk chocolates, world over is manufactured by Cadbury, except in the United States, who is it made by there?

– Hershey’s

3. Ranbir Kapoor is the brand ambassador of which car manufacturer in India?

– Nissan

4. What name did Star News adopt on June 1, 2012

– ABP News

5. “Your typing while you drive is as bad as your driving while you type”. Whose advertisement is this?

– Opel

6. Which Japanese electronics giant had the name “Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.” from 1935 to October 2008?

– Panasonic

7. Rajat Gupta was convicted in June 2012 on insider trading charges stemming from Raj Rajaratham with regards to which company?

– Goldman Sachs

8. Who leads Ceejay Group, a big player in the tobacco industry?

– Praful Patel

9. Which is the largest mobile operator in terms of numbers in Bangladesh?

– Grameenphone

10. Which newspaper is using the following campaign?

– DNA

11. If Samsung is the largest Chaebol (South Korean Conglomerate), which is the second largest Chaebol?

13. Which clothing company started its business at Sacramento Street, San Francisco in 1853?

– Levi’s

14. Which product/ brand did ‘Lalitaji’ make famous in Indian advertising?

– Surf

15. Who is the author of the best seller “Guerrilla marketing”?

– Jay Conrad Levinson

16. In 1949, in Sycamore, Illinois, Ed Seymour derived a novel solution to demonstrate an aluminum paint he had created for painting steam radiators. He used a known principle for this demo, but it became popular and he ended up founding a company. What did he invent?

– Aerosol Paint

17. The ‘Platinum Lounge’, a royal luxurious movie-viewing experience, is now known as ‘Wave Cinemas’. Who was its founder?

– Ponty Chadda

18. What did Timothy Leary, American Psychologist and writer, refer to as the LSD of the future?

– Internet

19. The first of this name was set up by Ramakishen Dutt in Calcutta in 1828. The second Bank of India was incorporated in London in the year 1836 as an Anglo-Indian bank. The third bank named Bank of India was registered in Bombay (Mumbai) in the year 1864. What was the name of the bank?

– Bank of India

20. She is Melanie Healey. She heads the feminine division of which FMCG giant?

– Procter and Gamble

21. What financial services company was founded by Rashesh Shah and Venkat Ramaswamy and was named after a national symbol, especially Austria?

– Edelweiss Capital

22. Youngest of three children of an army doctor Lt. Col. Dr. Bantwal Ganapathi, this industrialist capped an academic career with the Doon School and Presidency College, Kolkata. In 1948, he replaced R.G.N. Price as the Chairman of the company that is now headed by his flamboyant son. Who?

– Vittal Mallya

23. What word comes from Latin for ‘Caseus’, which means ‘to turn sour’?

– Cheese

24. Ganesh C Jain and Ratan D.Jain started this as a cassette company in the early 1980s. Which brand from the music industry is this?

– Venus Cassettes

25. This is the son on a person who revolutionized cricket. Who?

– James Packer

Questions Contributed by Raghav Rithvik.

Raghav Rithvik is a mechanical engineer by profession, avid photographer, motorcycle aficionado and tech enthusiast. He is one of them who loves the why of things!

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